Education
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Columbia University cedes to Trump administration in battle over federal funding due to antisemitism
The agreement also comes after the administration pulled $400 million in grants which amounts to approximately 8% of the university’s US-taxpayer funding.
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Social workers get millions to push DEI in schools
Now that President Donald Trump has banned that kind of funding, schools will have to find workarounds or drop the programs altogether.
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House Republican to introduce legislation so Trump can shutter Education Dept through Congress
Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin taking steps to close the department.
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Trump moved to abolish the Education Department: What comes next
“People have wanted to do this for many, many years, for many, many decades, and I don't know, no president ever got around to doing it, but I'm getting around to doing it,” Trump said.
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School superintendent compares trans athletes in women's sports to 'civil rights struggles' in US
School superintendent Ryan Scallon in Portland, Maine compared transgender athletes being able to compete in women's sports to civil rights issues and women's suffrage.
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Columbia issues meandering, evasive statement on what it's doing to get $400M federal funding back
Wall Street Journal reported less than an hour before president's noncommital statement that private university associated with anti-Israel chaos was "close to yielding" to President Trump's demands to restore grants, contracts.
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Harvard tuition will be free for students of families making under $200k a year
The financial aid expansion will start in the 2025-26 academic year.
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Campus Crusade: More colleges removing DEI programs and requirements
Schools nationwide have been responding to Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order.
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Education Department investigating over 50 colleges for alleged racial discrimination
These practices tend to exclude white people and Asian Americans, according to officials in the Trump administration.
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Columbia University expels students amid ICE raids over pro-Palestinian protests
In an email to students and staff, university officials announced that the expulsions were prompted by an investigation that also led to multi-year suspensions and the temporary revoking of some graduates’ degrees.
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Johns Hopkins University announces it will fire nearly 2,000 workers over cut to federal funding
"We can confirm that the elimination of foreign aid funding has led to the loss of 1,975 positions in 44 countries internationally and 247 in the United States," a spokesperson for the school said.
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Columbia U announces punishments of students who occupied Hamilton Hall, including expulsion
The punishments were based on an “evaluation of the severity of behaviors," the school said.
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Harvard University freezes hiring process amid renewed antisemitic scrutiny
Harvard leaders said the freeze is taking place because of “substantial financial uncertainties" caused by the new administration's crackdown. The university has the largest endowment, $53.2 billion, of any university in the world.